Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Weather Station is an open source plugin for WordPress – which is free too – and you can download it and install it for no cost.

No. Weather Station is the same for everybody! I have no plan to make a pro and/or paid version.

Yes. If you like Weather Station or find it useful and want to thank me for the work done, please consider making a donation to La Quadrature Du Net or the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which are two advocacy groups defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. By supporting them, you help the daily actions they perform to defend our fundamental freedoms!

If your station is a Netatmo, WeatherFlow or BloomSky or if it can export its data to Ambient Network and OpenWeatherMap or if it used in conjunction with softwares like Weather Display, Cumulus, WeeWX, etc. the answer is yes. For a full compatibility list, please see supported devices and services.

Whether you have a personal weather station or not, you can use Weather Station. With Weather Station, you have access to the hundreds of thousands of stations that their owners have decided to make public.

To install Weather Station on your site, the minimum versions are as follows:

• WordPress 4.9;
• PHP 7.1, with json support (most servers have it).

For full detail, please read the requirements page.

Yes. You can install it via the network admin plugins page but the plugin must not be “Network Activated”, instead you must activate it on a site by site basis.

Maybe. Weather Station is ready for collaborative translation and it is already translated in many languages. But I can’t assure that your language is covered. For a list of available languages, please, see the dedicated page.

For automatic installation, just follow the four-steps installation method. If you want to do it in the old fashioned way, you can download it here and manually install it (but why would you want to do that?).

If Weather Station is already translated in your language, just after installation its language pack will be downloaded from wordpress.org. If it is not already translated, you can help, please see the languages & translation detail.

If after having installed and activated Weather Station you’re a bit lost, jump to the Getting Started section of the handbook.

If you encounter the following error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_USE, expecting T_FUNCTION in ...
it’s because your version of PHP is too old. Please read again the pre-installation section of this FAQ, or jump to the requirements page.

The update of the weather data is done via the WordPress cron scheduler which depends on the traffic on your site. If your site has low traffic, the data may not be refreshed properly. You can overcome this by following one of these methods.

If you’re experiencing an issue which is not explained in this FAQ, please open question in the community support.